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19 February 2025

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Monika S. Jakubowska, Photo credit: Fiona Ross

Our colleague Nadja von Massow has written a think-piece: “The Relationship Between Musicians and Photographers: A Call for Understanding”read more

Eastman School of Music’s jazz faculty has some new appointments – read more

Andrew Taylor-Dawson reviewed Theo Croker’s Dream Manifest at the Barbican for Jazzwise – read more

Chris Hodgkins draws attention to the UK Government’s consultation into AI and copyright – read more

The Financial Times has investigated the jazz/perfume connection, including check-ins with Till Broenner and esperanza spalding for their favourite scents – read more

…also in the FT, Mike Hobart reviewed Sullivan Fortner’s new album Southern Nights (£-walled) – read more

…while Far Out Mag finds the connections between Django Reinhardt and Wings’ “Deliver Your Children” – read more

Yazz Ahmed’s A Paradise in the Hold is the Guardian’s ‘Global Album of the Month’ – read more

…also in the Guardian, pianist and composer Howard Riley (RIP) is remembered by Richard Williams – read more

Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores [of Kenny Wheeler] is in Chris Pearson’s list of ‘The Best Jazz Albums of 2025 So Far’ in the Times (£-walled) – read more

Ethan Iverson’s latest Transitional Technology Substack is about Gloria Cheng’s new album of progressive piano music Root Progressionsread more

UKJN contributor Tony Dudley Evans (of TDE Promotions) reviewed The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis at The Hare & Hounds Birmingham – read more

Marc Meyers of JazzWax writes about trumpeter Red Rodney’s career before his famous work with Charlie Parker – read more

Days and Weeks Ahead

1) Live gigs

Wednesday 19 February – Tom Niblock Big Band are at the Vortex

Wednesday 19 February – Emily Masser is at the 606

Wednesday 19-20 February – Tommy Smith and Gwilym Simcock Duo are at Pizza Express Soho

Thursday 20 February 6:15-8pm – Neal’s Jazz Night @ Raffles Neal Richardson with Miles Danso at Raffles Hotel at the OWO, 57 Whitehall, London SW1A 2HB

Thursday 20 February – Richie Milton & The Lowdown feat top vocalist linda Hall: New Orleans influenced jazz, blues & soul over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4

Thursday 20 February – Jonathan Gee Trio are at Cambridge Modern Jazz at Hidden Rooms, 7b Jesus Lane, CB5 8BA

Thursday 20 February- Frank Walden on sax with James Fenn on guitar are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES

Thursday 20 February- Maddy Coombs downstairs , Dreamscapes upstairs at the Vortex

Thursday 20 February – Pete Kelly and Dave Chamberlain are at Ristorante Sorrento, 34 Heath Rd, Twickenham TW1 4BZ

Thursday 20 February – Steve Waterman is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS

Thursday 20 February – Rosie Frater-Taylor is at SoundCellar in Poole

Thursday 20 February – Jossef Balacs is with Mornington Lockett at the 606

Thursday 20 February – Sarah Oschlag and the Pete Long Quintet are at the Pavilion Guildford

Friday 21 February – Yetii + Jake at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, Chichester

Friday 21 February – Chris Dean Quartet: Sliding through Jazz at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF

Friday 21 February – Dave Lewis is at the 606

Friday 21 February – Dunajska Kapelye are at the Vortex

Friday 21 February – Hampstead Jazz Club at The Duke of Hamilton, 23-25 New End, NW3 1JD: Ineza & ‘Women’s Words, Sisters’ Stories

Saturday 22 February 2pm – Mick Foster with Rob Barron, Colin Gourlay are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2

Saturday 22 February – Adam Dyer Quartet: Where the River Meets the Sea… at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF

Saturday 22 February – Clark Tracey’s Jazz Champions are at the 606

Saturday 22 February – Gary Crosby’s Mingus Moves are at the Vortex

Saturday 22 February – Georgia Mancio and Kate Williams, Hampstead Jazz Club, The Duke of Hamilton, 23-25 New End, London NW3 1JD‬

Saturday 22 February – Misha Mullov-Abbado ‘Effra’ Album Launch at Kings Place

Saturday 22 February – Nick Costley-White: Poncha Album Release are at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW11 7BD

Saturday 22 February – Asha Parkinson, Pizza Express Dean Street

Sunday 23 February lunchtime – NOXQQ Quartet with Phil Scragg are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon

Sunday 23 February 1.30 Trinity Laban Ellington Big Band are at the 606

Sunday 23 February – Mojo Big Band play Metheny in the afternoon , jam in the evening at the Vortex

Sunday 23 February 5-7pm – Jazz at the Horsebridge, Whitstable, feat. Julian Marc Stringle Quartet

Sunday 23 February – Louise Clare Marshall is at the 606

Sunday 23 February – Simon Spillet Quartet have album launch at Pizza Express Soho

Sunday 23 February – jazz On The Plaza featuring Piers Green on sax, Terence Collie on piano & Esther Ng on bass. Café Yukari, Kew

Monday 27 February – James Allsopp Quintet are at the Parakeet in Kentish Town Rd

Tuesday 25 February – Mauro Sigura Electric Quartet : Dunia is at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ

Tuesday 25 February – Jonny Liebeck is at 606 Chelsea

Tuesday 25 February – Grooveyard with Simon Savage & Roy Hilton at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG

Tuesday 25 February – Elliot Galvin The Ruin album launch is at the Vortex

Tuesday 25 February – Jo Harrop Trio are at the Trafalgar Arms 148-156 Tooting High St, London SW17 0RT

Wednesday 26 February – Splash Point Jazz Club, Eastbourne have Roy Hilton Quintet, at the Fishermen’s Club BN22 7AA

Wednesday 26 February at the Spice of Life in Soho, Denmark Street Big Band with vocalist Dani Milano

Wednesday 26 February – Dave Cottle Trio and arah Meek are at the 606

Wednesday 26 February -the Vortex have Aspyrian downstairs and Alasdair Pennington Quintet upstairs

Thursday 27 February – Ivo Neame Trio @ Peggy’s Skylight, Nottingham, UK

Thursday 27 February – Elchin Shirinov Trio are at Firth Hall Sheffield

Thursday 27 February-Al Nicholls on tenor sax is at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar, Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES

Thursday 27 February – Matt Hopkins and the Blue Vanguard house trioare at the Cygnet Theatre, Friars Gate, Exeter, EX2 4AZ

Thursday 27 February – KAIYO 3 with Allison Neale are at Karamel in Wood Green

Thursday 27 February- Jemima Whyte downstairs , Red Kite upstairs at the Vortex

Thursday 27 February – Cover to Cover Present Wayne Shorter’s Speak No Evil with Jac Jones , Dolan Jones , Alcyona Mic , Dave Mannington , Jay Davis are The Mildmay Club , N16 9PR

Thursday 27 February – Neil Yates Lyro are at the 606

Thursday 27 February – Vasilis Xenopoulos is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS

Thursday 27 February – Dave Jones’ Funk Affinity: Jazz Funk 6-piece feat bassist Dave Jones, pianist Chris Eldred, guitarist Dave Outram, drummer Tristan Maillot, vocalist Jacqui Hicks & Spanish percussionist Demi Garcia Sabat over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4

Thursday 27 February – Sarah Moule with The Simon Wallace Trio are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR

Friday 28 February – Georgia Mancio with Alex Hutton, Julie Walkington and Dave Ohm, 1215 Club, 12a High Street, Wraysbury, Staines-upon-Thames, TW19 5DB

Friday 28 February 7pm – Kings Hall, Herne Bay, Elaine Delmar Quartet, benefit for Herne Bay Jazz Festival

Friday 28 February – WAY OUT WEST Presents: West Side Story at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF

Friday 28 February – Samara are at the 606

Friday 28 February – Rachael Cohen is at the Vortex

Live gigs March

Saturday 1 March – Basil Hodge Quartet are at Pizza Express Soho

Saturday 1 March – Tomasz Zyrmont Quartet are at at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF

Sunday 2 March lunchtime – Tom Ridout Quartet are at the Oval Tavern , Croydon

Sunday 2 March 2pm – Equinox are at MAP Studio in Kentish Town

Sunday 2 March 5pm – John Etheridge is at Highams Park Jazz Club All Saints Church Church Avenue E4 9QZ

Sunday 2 March – ‘Some Kinda Mean’ the Music of David ‘Fathead’ Newman is at Pizza Express Soho

Sunday 2 March – Hot Jazz Vagabonds: “Paris In A Jazz Age” swing from the 20’s, 30’s & 40’s over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4

Monday 3 March – The Emily Masser Quintet are at Pizza Express Soho

Tuesday 4 March – QOW Trio are at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone

Tuesday 4 March – Sullivan Fortune Trio are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ

Tuesday 4 March – Ruben Fox is at the Pizza Express Soho

Tuesday 4 March – Jonathan Gee is at The Spin Jazz Club, Oxford

Tuesday 4 March – Alan Barnes with the John Pearce Trio are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ

Tuesday 4 March – Art Themen Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG.

Wednesday 5 March Jonathan Gee is at the 606 Club, Fulham, London

Thursday 6 March 6:15-8pm – Neal’s Jazz Night @ Raffles Neal Richardson with Miles Danso at Raffles Hotel at the OWO, 57 Whitehall, London SW1A 2HB

Thursday 6 March – John Law’s Congregation are at SoundCellar in Poole

Thursday 6 March – HEXAGONAL – The Music of Bheki Mseleku and McCoy Tyner are at Guildford Jazz

Thursday 6- 9 March – Afro Futures Festival is at Rich Mix, London

Thursday 6 March – Sean Khan and The Modern Jazz and Folk Ensemble, Rich Mix (par of the Afro Futures Festival)

Thursday 6 March – The Isobel Pearce Quartet “Old Devil Moon”: Debut record release from this rising vocal star with Paul Michael, bass, Paul Stead, gtr & Chris Nicholls, drms over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4

Thursday 6 March – Anthony Kerr is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS

Thursday 6 March- Alam Nathoo on reeds with Stuart Henderson on trumpet are at the Hedsor Jazz Club at the Hedsor Bar. Hedsor Road, Bourne End SL8 5ES

Thursday 6 March – James Allsopp, Colin Oxley, Oli Hayhurst, Matt Skelton are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR

Thursday 6 March – ‘Funk My Life’: Stage Star Philippa Healey & Special Guests: Including Jamiroquai’s Paul Turner & Derrick McKenzie, Wales Millenium Centre Cabaret Club

Friday 7 March – Espen Eriksen Trio with Andy Sheppard at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, Chichester

Friday 7 March – Jonathan Gee is at Derby Jazz

Friday 7 March – Elvira Rey Trio are at at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF

Saturady 8 March 1.30 – Jemima Whyte , Myra Brownbridge and Maddy Salter are at National Jazz Archives at Loughton Baptist Church IG10 4QU

Saturady 8 March – Jean Toussaint is at the Vortex

Saturday 8 March – CLAIRE COPE’S ENSEMBLE C: “Every Journey” – album launch is at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF

Saturday 8 March – SoundCellar are putting on Iain Ballamy & Gareth Williams at The Mowlem Theatre, Swanage

Saturday 8 March – Frank Griffith w/Roger Beaujolais- vibes and Johnny Mac- bass at Ma Boyles. Tower Hill Gardens, Liverpool, L3 1LQ

Sunday 9 March lunchtime – Jonathan Gee is at the Oval Tavern , Croydon

Sunday 9 March @ 3pm – The Herts Big Band is at Googlies Jazz, Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS

Sunday 9 March – Off the Rails, Richmond, host the Rod Youngs Quartet featuring Denys Baptiste, Larry Bartley, Jo Caleb

Sunday 9 March 6.30 pm Robert Fowler with Graham Harvey, Dave Green, Steve Brown at Imber Court, KT8 0BT

Sunday 9 March – Alison Rayner Quintet are at Pizza Express Soho

Sunday 9 March, 7.30pm – Guildhall Big Band: Portraits in Jazz – UK PREMIERE at Milton Court Concert Hall

Monday 10 March – Splash Point Jazz Club, Seaford have Ben Holder (violin/vox) with the Neal Richardson Trio, at The View at Seaford Head Golf Club BN25 4JS

Tuesday 11 March – The Emily Masser Quintet are at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone

Tuesday 11 March – Jenny Green Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG

Tuesday 11 March – Craig Taborn / Peter Evans are at the Vortex

Tuesday 11 March – Zhenya Strigaley Quartet are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ

Tuesday 11 March – Pete Neighbour, John Pearce, Andy Cleyndert, Matt Fishwick are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ

Wednesday 12 March – Piano in The Elms: Alberto L. Ferro – Piano Introspections is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens, 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7BD

Wednesday 12 March – ‘Funk My Life’: Stage Star Philippa Healey & Special Guests: Including Jamiroquai’s Paul Turner & Derrick McKenzie, Crazy Coqs, London

Wednesday 12 March – Carshalton Jazz presents Steve Waterman’s Latin Jazz Quartet (Steven Waterman, tpt and flugel, John Donaldson, pno, Rob Statham, b, Marc Cecil, d) at Cryer Arts, Carshalton SM5 3BB

Thursday 13 March – Pete Neighbour, John Pearce, Andy Cleyndert, Bobby Worth are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR

Thursday 13 March – Josh Kemp is at Googlies Jazz Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS

Thursday 13 March, 7.30pm, – Guildhall Jazz Orchestra: Dankworth Seven are at Milton Court Theatre

Thursday 13 March, – The Hip Breakers: hot mix of jazz, blues & neo-soul from the former rhythm section of the Mississippi Swamp Dogs, Paul Miller, keys & vcls, Dan Redding, gtr, Jonno Lee, drms with special guest Duncan Eagles, sax over in the Boston Room at Chiswick’s George IV, W4

Friday 14 March – Marcina Arnold: EVOLUTION – album launch is at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF

Friday 14 March – Piano in The Elms: Julian Joseph is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens, 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7BD

Saturday 15 March – Tony Kofi and The Organisation celebrate Lou Donaldson at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF

Saturday March 15th 8pm – Sarah L King with Jim Watson and Laurence Cottle at Hampstead Jazz Club

Saturday 15 March – The Blue Room at The Lawn, Lincoln host the Alison Rayner Quintet (ARQ) Led by bassist and Ivor Novello-winning composer Alison Rayner. Line-up is Alison Rayner, bass’ Buster Birch, drums, Deirdre Cartwright guitar. Diane McLoughlin, saxophone

Sunday 16 March 5pm – Jim Mullen is at Highams Park Jazz Club All Saints Church Church Avenue E4 9QZ

Monday 17 March – Olivia Murphy Jazz Orchestra are at Pizza Express Soho

Monday 17 – 19 March – Avishai Cohen Trio present Brightlight at Ronnie Scott’s

Tuesday 18 March – Benn Clatworthy is at the East Side Jazz Club Leytonstone

Tuesday 18 March – Al Nicholls Quartet are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Bardswell Social Club, Weald Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4TJ

Tuesday 18 March – Andy Panayi Quintet plays Cannonball at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ

Tuesday 18 March – Luke Rattenbury Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG

Wednesday 19 March – Benn Clatworthy is at Guildford Jazz

Thursday 20 March –Echo Engine with Theo Travis are at SoundCellar in Poole

Thursday 20 March – Martin Shaw is at Googlies Jazz Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS

Thursday 20 March – Nikki Iles & Kate Williams / Robert Mitchell & Richard Fairhurst at Pizza Express Soho

Thursday 20 March 6:15-8pm – Neal’s Jazz Night @ Raffles Neal Richardson with Miles Danso at Raffles Hotel at the OWO, 57 Whitehall, London SW1A 2HB

Friday 21 March – James Allsopp Quartet at Chichester Jazz Club, The Pallant Suite, 7 South Pallant, Chichester

Friday 21 March – Greg Spero & Spirit Fingers are at Jazz Cafe

Friday 21 March – Elsden Music Showcase with Julian Costello & Vertigo, Juliet Wood, and Natalie Rozario and Friends… at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF

Saturday 22nd March – Gosia Janek Quintet are at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF

Saturday 22nd March – Frank Griffith w/Richard Wetherall- piano, Grant Russell- bass, Eryl Roberts-drums are at Heron Theatre. Stanley Street, Beetham, Milnthorpe, LA7 7AS

Saturday 22 March – Jason Rebello is at Highams Park Jazz Club All Saints Church Church Avenue E4 9QZ

Sunday 23 March 2025 – Tom Millar/Matt Sulzmann Quartet Turk’s Head Twickenham

Tuesday 25 March – Brand Nu Dolla Play Abdullah Ibrahim at the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone

Tuesday 25 March – Vasilis Xenopoulos and Paul Edis Quartet are at the Trafalgar Arms 148-156 Tooting High St, London SW17 0RT

Tuesday 25 March – Tim Whitehead Quartet at The Hare & Hounds, 79-81 Portland Road, Worthing, BN11 1QG

Tuesday 25 March – Eddie Parker’s ‘Airborn’ with Rob Luft are at Watermill Jazz, Betchworth Park Golf, Dorking RH4 1NZ

Wednesday 26 March – Splash Point Jazz Club, Eastbourne have Alan Barnes (saxes) and Dave Newton (keys) Duo, at the Fishermen’s Club BN22 7AA

Thursday 27 March – Mick Foster, Rob Barron, Dave Mannington, Tristan Mailliot are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club – Club Langley, 2 Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3SR

Thursday 27 March – Huw Warren Choro Choro Choro is at Guildford Jazz

Thursday 27 March – Julian Stringle & Pete Neighbour are at Botany Bay Cricket Club EN2 8AS

Friday 28 March – Five-Way Split is at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens, 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7BD

Friday 28 March 2025 – WOW presents Ellington/Strayhorn at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF

Saturday 29 March 2pm – Dave and Alice Black, John Pearce, Andy Cleyndert, Dave Pack are at Spike’s Place Jazz Club at The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend, Essex SS2 6EX2

Saturday 29th March – Becky Alice Quintet are at Jazz Cafe POSK at 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF

Saturday 29 March 2025 – ‘The Brandon Allen Quartet’, featuring Brandon Allen (saxophone), Tim Lapthorn (piano), Jeremy Brown (bass) and Chris Higginbottom (drums), are appearing for Burrough Jazz at Twyford Village Hall, LE14 2HU

Sunday 30 March 5pm – Alex Clarke is at Highams Park Jazz Club All Saints Church Church Avenue E4 9QZ

Friday 4 April – Jazzlive at The Crypt, St. Giles Church, Camberwell Church Street, London SE5: Coltrane and Hartman on Impulse! feat. Denys Baptiste and Marvin Muoneké

Monday 7 April – The Jazz Café, 5 Parkway, Camden, London NW1 7PG: to celebrate Billie Holiday’s birthday, Riketté Genesis and Alex Webb present ‘Billie Holiday at Carnegie Hall

Wednesday 9 April – The Concorde Club, Stoneham Lane, Eastleigh S)50 9HQ: The Pocket Ellington, a seven-piece celebration of the Ellington repertoire play this prestigious out-of-town jazz spot with Alan Barnes and Tony Kofi

Thursday 10 April – Remi Harris Hot Club Trio are at Crazy Coqs

Friday 11 April – Daniel John Martin (violin), Mick Shoulder (guitar) and Dan Lowndes-Smith (guitar) are performing Gypsy jazz for Burrough Jazz at St Mary’s church, Burrough, LE14 2JQ

Saturday 12th April – Iain Ballamy and Huw Warren are at Listen! Cambridge Unitarian Church, 5 Emmanuel Road, Cambridge CB1 1JW

Sunday 13 April 6.30 pm Ralph Moore ON TOUR FROM THE USA, with Vasilis Xenopoulos and Simon Woolf Trio at Imber Court, KT8 0BT.

Wednesday 16 April – Donovan Haffner is at Pizza Express Soho

Saturday 19 April – The Blue Room at The Lawn, Lincoln LN1 3BU. host Clark Tracey’s Champions of Jazz (Clark Tracey, Drums, Art Themen & Simon Allen, saxes. Dave Newton, piano, Andy Cleyndert, bass) in a tribute to Roy Haynes

Sunday 20 April 2025 – Pete Hurt is at Turk’s Head Twickenham

Monday 21 April, 6-8PM – Frank Griffith trio are at The Crown Pub- High Street, Nantwich part of Nantwich Jazz and Blues Festival

Friday 25 April – Hans Koller: Rejoicing Ensemble feat. John O’Gallagher are at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens, 3 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London, SW11 7BD.

Saturday 26 April 1pm – Sarah L King Quartet plus guests at Pizza Express Jazz Club Soho

2) Live Streamed Timed Events – Listed in time order.

Thursday 20 February – Playtime are streaming their gig with Konrad Wiesniewski https://www.facebook.com/playtimemusic1/live_videos/

Thursday 20 February – Rosie Frater-Taylor is at SoundCellar in Poole https://www.tickettailor.com/events/soundcellar

Friday 21 February – Elliott Galvin The Ruin is streaming from Porgy and Bess in Vienna https://www.porgy.at/events/upcoming

Friday 21 February 7.30 pm – Mim Grey (vocals) Elliott Rooney (piano) Steve Vintner (percussion) stream from Perivale – https://st-marys-perivale.org.uk/events-001.shtml

Friday 21 February – Eric Alexander Quartet feat. George Cables & Johnathan Blake are streaming from Smokes in New York https://www.smokejazz.com/

Monday 24 February 4am GMT – Tiny Room Studios weekly jam from LA . Can be viewed subsequently https://www.youtube.com/@TinyRoom/streams

Thursday 6 March – John Law’s Congregation are streaming from SoundCellar in Poole https://www.tickettailor.com/events/soundcellar

Thursday 20 March –Echo Engine with Theo Travis are streaming from SoundCellar in Poole https://www.tickettailor.com/events/soundcellar

Thursday 27 March – The Perhaps Jazz Trio – Julian Costello (saxophone) Natalie Rozario (cello/vocals) Patrick Naylor (guitar) are streaming from St Mary’s Perivale https://st-marys-perivale.org.uk/events-001.shtml

3) Residencies

Every third Sunday of each month at 7pm at the Queen’s Head, Denman Street, Jake Goss and friends

Every Monday at Off The Cuff , Railton Road, Herne Hill, London, at 8.30 Roger Humbles Quartet followed at 9.30 by a jam.

Every Tuesday – Silver Bullet Jazz Jam at The Night Owl in Finsbury Park with Bukky Leo

Every Tuesday – Alec Harper Quartet are at Eastcheap Records 20 Eastcheap, London, EC3M 1EB

Every Wednesday at The Plough 381 Lordship Lane SE22 8JJ starting at 8.30 p.m. a jam session. Resident piano trio. Bring your horns along and play from 8.30 p.m.

Every Thursday , Friday and Saturday Leo Green hosts shows at the Middle Eight bar WC2B 5BX

Every Thursday at The Great North Wood, 3 Knight Hill, Norwood, London, at 8.30 Roger Humbles Quartet followed at 9.30 by a jam.

Every second Sunday of each month at 1.30pm Equinox are at Map Studio in Kentish Town

Every Sunday 6.30-8.30 Ollie Usiskin Quartet at The Priory Tavern 250 Belsize road north maida vale kilburn london NW6 4BT

Tuesday , Wednesday and Thursday 3pm-7pm Neal Richardson plays at Afternoon Tea Jazz in The Drawing Room Raffles Hotel at the OWO, 57 Whitehall,

3) NOT TIMED

Emmet Cohen has still got a weekly stream going on Monday nights from his place https://www.facebook.com/heyemmet/?hc_location=ufi

Smalls in New York are streaming every night and if you sign up you get access to their archive https://www.smallslive.com/

Sands Film Studios concerts from the EFG London Jazz Festival are still available – https://sandsfilms.co.uk/music-room-past-streams-watch-now.html

The weekly jam at Tiny Room’ Studio in Los Angeles, with all kinds of local luminaries showing up, has a live stream every Monday at 8pm PST / 4am GMT . Previous sessions are on Youtube at : https://www.youtube.com/@TinyRoom/streams

4) Radio etc

Alan Musson’s ‘Jazz Kaleidoscope’ airs on Sanctuary Radio on Sunday nights 8-9pm and from 15 December will be extended to two hours 7-9pm. https://www.sanctuaryradio.co.uk

Explore the World of Jazz with Al Giddings on White Horse Radio every Tuesday evening at 9pm, with classic tracks, unexpected gems and jazz you didn’t know you liked until you heard it. www.whitehorseradio.net

On each Tuesday in November, the Cinema Club at Sands Film Studios 82 Marychurch St SE16 4HZ will screen documentaries on the theme of Jazz in Europe

Frank Griffith – “The Jazz Cavern” Thursdays at 9PM. Repeats at 6PM Sunday www.mykindamusic24.com

Liverpool Community Radio – “The Jazz Cavern” 106.7 FM. www.l-c-r.co.uk Airs on weekly Fridays-2PM, Saturdays- 4PM, Tuesdays- 4PM

The European Jazz Hour with Peter Slavid – https://www.mixcloud.com/ukjazz/ or on hayesfm 91.8 FM

Wednesdays at 10pm on Radio Deal – Jazz on the Beach with Adam Sieff https://www.dealradio.co.uk/shows/jazz-on-the-beach

Marlow FM’s longstanding Jazz Show “Swing That Music” (www.marlowfm.co.uk) 6pm Sunday now gets a worldwide audience (even Kyle Eastwood!) being transmitted 5 times weekly by New York’s Pure Jazz Radio (www.purejazzradio.com)

5) Courses etc

The Jazz Singer’s Workshop – 606 Club November 23rd 10am-4pm

LightSounds Audiovisual Art Festival and workshops 23-24.11.2024 at The Stage, Richmix, 35-37 Bethnal Green Road, E1 6LA London

July 26 -29 GMF Valencia Jazz Workshop https://www.gmfjazzsummit.com/gmf-valencia-jazz-workshop-2025-eng

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